Wondering about the unusual blog name for a paper crafter? My site is named after my Black Lab, Shadow. Shadow received his name by being my constant shadow including while I am crafting. The running joke in my family is that due to the whole 'Labs shed A LOT', everything I create has a signature 'Shadow' hair hidden somewhere... I hope you enjoy my creations and please don't hunt for the tiny black hairs :)

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Anything But a Card Challenge 49- Anything Goes!!

Hello! I'm so glad you stopped by to visit today! This month Anything But a Card Challenges has an open theme, so that means ANYTHING GOES! Well, almost anything-no cards please!!

I was in the mood for something inky and messy this time and my quotes journal was the perfect place to do it. In my mind, I saw all of these muddy, grungy browns working together and while I had a momentary thought of chocolate, it was quickly replaced with coffee. So I pulled out all of my browns and started smearing and sponging. We have a small pickers style store in the town next to us and I found some wonderfully used office stamps one day. You can see the 'special delivery' made it to this page. I wanted something to represent coffee mug rings and a quick trip to my recycling bags gave me a milk jug cap. Perfect!

I've had the 'two cup day' sentiment for quite a while and thought it would go well with this super caffeinated page, so it finally saw some ink. I also used the stamp set Perfect Blend (was so super bummed when this hit the retired list...) to make my cups and the rule the world sentiment. There was this 'hole' in the top right corner of the page. Hole is in accents because there was so much ink on this page it wasn't really a blank space, but seemed like it needed something more. I found an old enamel sticker that would work, but when I put it on the page it was too shiny for such a earthy page. So I pulled out the rock candy crackle paint and aged it a little bit. Now there's another completed page in my journal, one that shares a bit about my favorite drink!

I truly hope you have been inspired to create something and share it with us! We would love to see what you've been up to! Thanks so much again, for visiting! Have a marvelous week!

About Me

Welcome to my blog! I am a scrapping/stamping junkie, and a blog stalker. I love to create and share with others. As a teacher, I enjoy seeing the sense of achievement that occurs when people realize they can make something wonderful! Thanks for stopping in!